{"id":3246,"date":"2026-05-10T01:22:28","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T01:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/velvetink.xyz\/guide-on-how-to-fail-at-online-dating-70\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T01:22:34","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T01:22:34","slug":"guide-on-how-to-fail-at-online-dating-70","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/velvetink.xyz\/ko\/chapter\/guide-on-how-to-fail-at-online-dating-70\/","title":{"rendered":"Guide on How to Fail at Online Dating 70"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Chapter 70

The next morning, when Jing Huan woke up, his mind was still filled with the fireworks in the main city’s night sky and those words\u2014”I like you.”

He closed his eyes and turned over under the covers.

It must have been because of his cold these past few days\u2014even the nightmares felt so real.

Just about to catch some extra sleep, the phone under the pillow suddenly beeped.

Jing Huan slowly took out his phone.

Gao Zixiang: @Xiao Jing Huan Huan, I need to tell you something. Don’t get too excited.

Gao Zixiang: [screenshot][screenshot]

Gao Zixiang: That’s right… Someone else was using Xiang Wang’s account for the past few months. Seems like we killed the wrong person [facepalm].

Xiao Jing: \u2026\u2026

Shit.

It wasn’t a dream.

Jing Huan tossed his phone aside and buried his entire face in the pillow. He only slowly pushed himself up when he started feeling suffocated.

The morning sunlight streamed through the glass window, casting warm but not burning light on his forehead.

It’s okay.

The sky hasn’t fallen, the Earth is still spinning. It’s no big deal to make mistakes sometimes\u2014just try to make up for it.

After comforting himself, Jing Huan turned on the faucet to wash up when another message arrived on his phone.

Xiang: I’m all packed up. Just waiting for you to come over so we can move into our new home.

Jing Huan looked ashen-faced.

Forget it.

No matter how beautiful the world is, what does it have to do with him!!!

After Xin Xiangwangzhi confessed last night, the team channel remained completely silent for a full two minutes.

For a moment, Jing Huan felt as if he had been possessed by some magical creature, which made him blurt out, “I still want to live in my own place.”

Xin Xiang Wang Zhi chuckled softly.

He remembered that laugh clearly\u2014last night’s Xin Xiang Wang Zhi… seemed to be in an unusually good mood, laughing often.

Then, yielding to his request, the man replied, “Alright, I’ll pack my things and move in tomorrow.”

The mint in the toothpaste jolted him back to his senses. Jing Huan placed the scorching-hot phone on the shelf above the sink and bent over to spit out the foam.

On his way to the classroom, Jing Huan almost turned back home. After all, given his two roommates’ track record, they might drag him into a long discussion about the very thing he was yearning for.

Unfortunately, he couldn\u2019t afford to fail this class. The old professor was particularly fond of taking attendance, so Jing Huan still made it into the classroom just as class was about to start.

To his surprise, he wasn\u2019t the only one in hell today.

Gao Zixiang sat between the two of them, glancing left and right, then muttered in frustration, “Can you two just stop? Anyone who doesn’t know better would think someone’s holding my funeral today.”

The female classmate in front of them burst into laughter upon hearing this.

Jing Huan, casually crossing his legs, lazily replied, “If that’s what you want, who are we to say no?”

Gao Zixiang: “Who pissed you off today?”

“I’m not feeling well, caught a cold.” Jing Huan used the same excuse from a few days ago, tilting his chin toward Lu Wenhao. “What’s up with him?”

“Divorced his in-game wife.”

Jing Huan nodded unsurprised. “That’s it? Got dumped?”

Gao Zixiang shook his head slightly. “No, he was the one who initiated the divorce.”

Jing Huan asked puzzledly, “He was fine, why did he suddenly divorce someone else?”

Gao Zixiang licked his lips, afraid of upsetting Lu Wenhao, and whispered sideways, “His game homepage has always featured a picture of him and his ex in the game, and he never deleted it. Yesterday, his current wife got angry and asked him to delete it, but he absolutely refused… As they talked, before the girl could even get angry, he was the first to blow up and then proposed divorce.”

After listening, Jing Huan’s face scrunched up, and after a while, he sighed, “He’s such a scumbag…”

Lu Wenhao’s voice was muffled, “You don\u2019t have to lower your voices on purpose. I can hear everything.”

Hearing Jing Huan say this, Lu Wenhao wasn’t angry, because even he felt he wasn’t much of a man himself.

Jing Huan leaned forward, propping his chin on one hand as he looked at him: “So what exactly are you thinking?”

Lu Wenhao: “I just can’t forget my ex.”

Jing Huan had the insults ready on his tongue, then suddenly felt something was off.

After a long pause, his expression turned complicated: “Wait, your ex… isn’t…”

a man?!

And a pot-bellied middle-aged one at that!!!

Jing Huan looked at Lu Wenhao with an expression reserved for idiots.

“It’s a guy, no doubt.” Lu Wenhao rubbed his face in frustration. “But I just can’t forget him. We’ve been together for so long…”

Gao Zixiang reminded him, “It’s only been a few months.”

“It’s been a full few months!!!” Lu Wenhao pounded his chest in frustration. “We had plans to meet next year, go out for street food and skewers together. We even discussed which neighborhood we’d live in someday. When the country announced the two-child policy, we happily set off fireworks for a whole hour in celebration…”

“You have no idea\u2014these past few days, every time I’m with Ruoruo, all I can think about are those memories of setting off fireworks and fishing together with him. Even when we’re on voice chat, his voice calling me ‘hubby’ echoes in my ears… Why did he have to let me find out he’s a guy?! At his age, can’t he be more careful about these things?!”

Jing Huan had initially wanted to call him a scumbag, but after hearing this, the words died in his throat.

Because, to be honest, he wasn’t much better than Lu Wenhao.

He was speechless: “Isn’t it better to find out early? Before you sink deeper…”

“I’d rather he kept lying to me!” Lu Wenhao covered his face in anguish. “If only he\u2019d waited until my passion for him had faded before revealing this, then we could\u2019ve parted ways happily! But no\u2014it had to happen right when I loved him the most…”

Jing Huan felt a slight pang in his heart.

What the hell… what kind of bullshit logic is this?

The scariest part is, he actually thought it made sense.

Right up until the end of class, Lu Wenhao still hadn’t managed to pull himself together.

Holding his phone, he pulled out the WeChat account he’d previously blocked, impulsively sent a punctuation mark over, and then received a notification that the other party had blocked him.

Lu Wenhao: “…”

Lu Wenhao: “I feel like I’ll never be able to have a proper relationship in this lifetime.”

Jing Huan was still processing Lu Wenhao’s earlier ramblings when these words jolted him awake: “No, you can.”

Jing Huan genuinely wasn’t worried about Lu Wenhao.

Lu Wenhao was the type to be thick-skinned and impulsive, often acting on whims\u2014he might be pining over an ex today, only to be kneeling on a keyboard apologizing to his wife tomorrow.

But what if my heart longs for it?

Jing Huan shook his head, not daring to think further.

After class, Jing Huan returned home and, for once, didn’t boot up his game.

Sitting cross-legged on his computer chair, he watched the comedy anime on screen half-heartedly while absentmindedly twirling his phone between his fingers.

The WeChat notification sound rang out, and Jing Huan covered the screen with his hand, checking the sender as if unveiling a lottery result.

Phew.

Little Path, Never Lost: Xiao Jing, what are you up to? Don\u2019t you have no classes this afternoon? Why aren\u2019t you online yet? Neither you nor Xiang Xiang are here, and I\u2019m bored to death. Hurry up and log in to claim the wedding gift I got you.

Jing Huan instinctively typed out the word “gege” (brother) but immediately deleted it.

Xiao Jing: He’s not here?

Xiao Lu Xiao Lu Never Gets Lost: Xiangxiang? He was called by his advisor to arrange school sports day stuff.

Xiao Jing: …I’m logging in now.

Two minutes later, Little Fox Spirit appeared in the antique wooden pavilion.

He logged off yesterday at Xiang Wangzhi’s home, so naturally he was still there when he logged back in.

Above the name “Little Sweet Jing” hung the title “Xiang Wangzhi’s Wife.”

Just glancing at it made Jing Huan feel guilty, so he quickly hid the title.

Friend messages kept flashing, and Jing Huan opened them one by one. They were all system notifications about gifts\u2014many friends had sent him gifts in the game, with the default message “Happy Marriage.”

He flew to the gift messenger in the main city and collected eight gifts at once.

Most of them were dyeing props and lucky stones, but the one from Lu Tiaotiao was the most expensive\u2014he sent a level 14 gem.

Sweetie: This gift is too expensive. Come to the gift messenger\u2014I\u2019ll return it to you.

Lu Tiaotiao: It’s not expensive. I originally wanted to give each of you one, but Xiangxiang insisted I give them all to you, so this is a gift for two.

Little Sweet Scene: ..

Tiao Tiao: I’ve scammed him out of many wedding gifts before, this is the first time I’m returning the favor. Don’t worry, just this one isn’t enough for him to break even [smug]

Heart’s Desire actually never got married before.

Jing Huan fell silent, then suddenly thought of something and typed.

Sweet Little Jing: By the way, earlier you said big brother doesn’t like making friends in-game. What’s the real reason? Can you tell me? T\u25bdT

Lu Hang bit into his ice pop, the coolness mingling with the breeze slipping through the window crack\u2014pure bliss.

He hadn’t told Sweet Scenery before because they weren’t that close yet. But now that they were married, it didn’t matter anymore.

He replied lazily.

Lutiaotiao: It’s nothing too serious. Xiangxiang used to have a guild, and he was really tight with the vice-leader\u2014they were sworn brothers in the game after knowing each other for almost two years. Who knew that bastard wasn’t human… He used Xiangxiang’s name to scam tens of thousands out of the guild’s veterans.

SweetScenery: \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026

LuTiaoTiao: That was just a few years ago, and tens of thousands was a huge sum. Xiangxiang paid the money himself\u2014probably still couldn\u2019t bear to do it\u2014so he didn\u2019t report it to the police. After that, he just buried himself in gaming and stopped engaging in any in-game socializing.

LuTiaoTiao: But you know how it is\u2014he\u2019s so famous, people are always looking for him every day. It only quieted down a bit after he got exposed recently. I figure that\u2019s why he didn\u2019t want to clear things up. Pretty dumb, right?

Yeah, pretty dumb.

However, it also shows that what happened a few years ago indeed had a significant impact on Heart’s Yearning.

Jing Huan placed his hands on the keyboard but hadn\u2019t yet typed a word when another reply came through.

Road Faraway: It was only after meeting you that he started to feel a bit better. So, the fact that he would marry you doesn\u2019t surprise me at all.

Jing Huan truly didn\u2019t know how to respond and could only stare blankly at these words.

Damn.

This seems more serious than he had imagined.

He had originally planned to sincerely admit his mistake and apologize properly, at worst letting him beat him up in real life.

But judging by the current situation, no matter how much he apologizes… it seems impossible to win Backlight’s forgiveness.

Whether he forgives me or not doesn’t matter… I’m just afraid that Xiangwang might retreat into himself again like he did years ago…

No.

With a blank expression, Jing Huan thought\u2014back then it was just a matter between bros, but this time it feels much more serious.

It was as if he had traveled back to last night, his mind once again a tangled mess. Just as he felt utterly helpless, a line of bold yellow text abruptly appeared in the notification bar\u2014

[Your husband Xiangwang has come online.]

Jing Huan: “…”

He quickly clicked the red X in the upper right corner of the game. Just as he was about to exit, a friend message popped up first\u2014

[Spouse] Heart’s Desire: Where are you?

Not here.

System bug.

I am not the actual owner of this account.

Jing Huan’s mouse hovered over the “Leave Game” button for over ten seconds. Because he took too long, Xiang Huaizhi had already found his location through the friend information and teleported to his side.

[Your spouse, Heart Longing for Him, invites you to join the team. Yes, No.]

Jing Huan gritted his teeth, hardened his heart, and forcefully clicked “Yes”.

As usual, the little fox spirit leaped nimbly behind the black-robed man.

No one knew how long the little fox spirit had been struggling internally.

Whether it was guilt or something else, Jing Huan’s heart started pounding uncontrollably the moment he joined the team.

After some hesitation, he cautiously spoke up, “Um…”

Xiang Huaizhi interrupted him: “Put the title on.”

Jing Huan: “…”

A few seconds later, with a *ding*.

The little fox fairy’s head once again bore the title “Heart’s Beloved Wife.”

[Current] Lu Tiaotiao: ???

[Current] Road is Long: What’s the meaning of not letting me join the team!

[Current] Heart Yearns for It: Newlyweds moving into their new home, and you want to tag along?

[Current] Lu Tiaotiao: \u2026\u2026

[Current] Sweet Little Scene: …………

Heart Yearns for It, that’s not how it is.

He wasn’t like this before!

Jing Huan stared at the words “newlyweds,” feeling like the word “scumbag” was written on the left side of his face and “jerk” was carved on the right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"parent":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}}},"novel":[],"class_list":["post-3246","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/velvetink.xyz\/ko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/chapter\/3246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/velvetink.xyz\/ko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/chapter"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/velvetink.xyz\/ko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/velvetink.xyz\/ko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3246"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/velvetink.xyz\/ko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/chapter\/3246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3247,"href":"https:\/\/velvetink.xyz\/ko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/chapter\/3246\/revisions\/3247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/velvetink.xyz\/ko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"novel","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/velvetink.xyz\/ko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/novel?post=3246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}